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and then he's got asia. the fact that the president makes his first post-election trip to asia tells you something. we're so focused on the middle east. we've been focused, i think wrongly, on iraq and rafg for the last ten-plus years. we've taken our eyes off the prize. asia is the part of the world that's going to be the center of the 21st century. this is where all the economic energy is, where all the dynamism is. what we're seeing in asia is what we saw a century ago. china, korea, vietnam, the tectonic plates are moving. the united states has to be involved. we've got to give these countries some reassurance. they have to understand they have an alternative to simply appeasing china. on the other hand, we don't want to set up a new cold war with china and for them to start acting recklessly. this is going to be the extraordinarily difficult balancing act, and the administration's going to have to figure out a way not to abandon the middle east but to put a ceiling on what we do in the middle east so we
and then he's got asia. the fact that the president makes his first post-election trip to asia tells you something. we're so focused on the middle east. we've been focused, i think wrongly, on iraq and rafg for the last ten-plus years. we've taken our eyes off the prize. asia is the part of the world that's going to be the center of the 21st century. this is where all the economic energy is, where all the dynamism is. what we're seeing in asia is what we saw a century ago. china, korea,...
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into asia as a whole. and that, therefore, we should tilt more in that direction. and as the troops are coming out of afghanistan and, of course, now out of iraq, they're moving more military forces into asia and beginning, i think, an offensive to try to pull countries back from feeling they have to accommodate china because we're not going to be there to defend them. >> you know, dr. haleprin, we hate to do this, we're going to throw it over to john heilemann. i know it was tough for you to find out your son was hanging out with a pot-smoking radical. such is the case, it turned out nice for him. >> be polite. >> i don't know how much people know about your background, but, you know, you famously are a civil libertarian of great repute and record. and you also had the experience at one point of having your phone tapped by the fbi. >> it was a home phone. >> once the director of the aclu, director of the washington, d.c., we talked about the petraeus scandal, what had gone on there and the fbi investigating that whole thing. when you say that unfold, there were a
into asia as a whole. and that, therefore, we should tilt more in that direction. and as the troops are coming out of afghanistan and, of course, now out of iraq, they're moving more military forces into asia and beginning, i think, an offensive to try to pull countries back from feeling they have to accommodate china because we're not going to be there to defend them. >> you know, dr. haleprin, we hate to do this, we're going to throw it over to john heilemann. i know it was tough for...
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sachs, the president made an important trip to asia. talk about what challenges we face over the next four years there and how you rate the president's performance? on this trip? >> well, they are in this pivot, as they call it, a little bit clearer what they're doing, the economic growth is in asia, the world center of gravity of the world economy is in asia. i think the president's there for obvious reasons, and that region is becoming more important. i think he gets high marks for the trip, and american presidents are going to be there quite a bit in the future. >> dr. brzezinski, what is your -- what's your take on the president's trip to asia? was the symbolism of the president of the united states making his first post-election trip to asia important? >> yes. i think it's important, but ultimately, what is at stake is the longer range american/chinese relationship. it can either be a historically unprecedented relationship of some reasonbly rationale partnership between the world's two major powers, or it can be unfortunately a re
sachs, the president made an important trip to asia. talk about what challenges we face over the next four years there and how you rate the president's performance? on this trip? >> well, they are in this pivot, as they call it, a little bit clearer what they're doing, the economic growth is in asia, the world center of gravity of the world economy is in asia. i think the president's there for obvious reasons, and that region is becoming more important. i think he gets high marks for the...
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the president went to asia. there's a lot of staff members sitting in washington right now putting together a framework to try to have another meeting the week after thanksgiving and then see where we go from there. i'm not overly optimistic but i don't think we should throw in the towel just yet. >> believe it when i see it. >> david, i just don't understand. and it's not like i haven't been there and haven't seen how this works before. >> you worked with these very people. >> white can't nancy, who i like, and john, who i like, pick up the phone, talk to each other and work towards a deal? i don't understand -- i really -- this isn't that hard. it's really not. >> first of all, it's boehner going to be talking to the president about this. and the issue that comes up for me, i think it's pretty clear both in terms of what's being said publicly as you just noted and talking to people who have been meeting with the president behind the screens as i have. the president wants to fight about taxes now and he wants t
the president went to asia. there's a lot of staff members sitting in washington right now putting together a framework to try to have another meeting the week after thanksgiving and then see where we go from there. i'm not overly optimistic but i don't think we should throw in the towel just yet. >> believe it when i see it. >> david, i just don't understand. and it's not like i haven't been there and haven't seen how this works before. >> you worked with these very people....
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. >> in fact, secretary panetta, in asia this morning, commented on that. he was asked again about this whole situation. and he said he wants americans to realize that we have 1,000 general officers in the u.s. military and that the vast majority of them, in secretary panetta's words, live akoshding according to the highest standards of integrity. you saw the push/pull, the sort of ambivalence in the president's posture at the news conference yesterday where he praised the extraordinary service of david petraeus, and that is certainly the feeling. but there was tension within the administration toward petraeus because there was blame for the briefing that susan rice got, that it came from the cia. there was also blame from his nominal boss, james clapper, the general who's the head of the director of national, that clapper really did not like and others in the administration did not like the cia's pushback. petraeus wanting to defend the agency against what they felt he felt was unfair criticism over benghazi. so interestingly, benghazi is sort of the cente
. >> in fact, secretary panetta, in asia this morning, commented on that. he was asked again about this whole situation. and he said he wants americans to realize that we have 1,000 general officers in the u.s. military and that the vast majority of them, in secretary panetta's words, live akoshding according to the highest standards of integrity. you saw the push/pull, the sort of ambivalence in the president's posture at the news conference yesterday where he praised the extraordinary...
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this is facing barack obama at a time he wants to do more in asia, deal with the fiscal cliff. welcome to your second term. >> a lot to do. richard haa ss. >> how did jerry adams do it? how did the irish terrorists as they were called before the peace deal, how did they not only enforce the peace but then turn to their own bad elements and say, step out of line, and we're going to crush you. >> one was, they couldn't shoot their way to power. tony blair, the irish prime minister gave them a political path that was legitimate. there was a potential there for compromise. they had discipline in their own ranks. >> how did they do that? how would hamas discipline the extremists? >> at some point -- listen, in the history of every opposition movement, there's a time when there's a civil war where people who want to compromise have to deal with the radicals who don't. the it happened in pre-israel history among the various jewish resistance groups, it'll have to happen with the palestinians. either hamas will be outflanked or they'll have to cut a deal and ultimately stand up. >>> wa
this is facing barack obama at a time he wants to do more in asia, deal with the fiscal cliff. welcome to your second term. >> a lot to do. richard haa ss. >> how did jerry adams do it? how did the irish terrorists as they were called before the peace deal, how did they not only enforce the peace but then turn to their own bad elements and say, step out of line, and we're going to crush you. >> one was, they couldn't shoot their way to power. tony blair, the irish prime...